From the Computational Genetics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania (www.epistasis.org)

Monday, October 27, 2008

Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)

A special issue of Human Molecular Genetics that focuses on GWAS was published this month. These papers very much represent the mainstream view of the field and I didn't see anything new that I would recommend reading. When will an editor present a more realistic and complete snapshot of the field and where it is going? Why is there not a paper on complex adaptive systems and their impact on GWAS? Do we not all believe that human health is a complex system?

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